Posted by Coffee & Covid<\/p>\n
🔥 Pfizer is giddily popping Champagne over its HUGE win at the Academy Awards this week. Check out this crazy timeline:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Between December 2020 and December 2021: VAERS receives over 3,000 reports of vaccine-induced alopecia after first or second dose of Pfizer Covid vaccine.<\/p>\n
\u2022 February 2021: Arena Pharmaceuticals begins third round clinical trials for its new drug, Etrasimod, which treats alopecia.<\/p>\n
\u2022 December 2021: Pfizer buys Arena Pharmaceuticals for $7 billion. (Arena\u2019s website is gone now, swallowed up by Pfizer; use the Wayback Machine if you go looking.)<\/p>\n
\u2022 March 23, 2022: Pfizer issues a press release announcing \u201cPositive Top-Line Results for Phase 3 Trial of Etrasimod\u201d (now called Ritlecitinib).<\/p>\n
\u2022 March 27, 2022: The Academy Awards begin, sponsored by Pfizer.<\/p>\n
\u2026 Chris Rock makes a joke about Jada Smith\u2019s alopecia at the Academy Awards.<\/p>\n
\u2026 Will Smith sissy-slaps Chris Rock on live TV and acts very put out, and says some non-family-friendly stuff, but gets the award anyway. And gets to keep it. And doesn\u2019t have to take anger management.<\/p>\n
\u2026 For the next few weeks, corporate media becomes fascinated with alopecia, how it hurts women, and why Jada Smith was so understandably upset about the joke. If only there were a safe and effective treatment! And, everybody\u2019s talking about the Oscars. Bonus.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not saying Chris and Will faked the slap. Who knows? But it sure was a great night for sponsor Pfizer, a real marketing coup. My gosh, Pfizer is on a roll \u2014 it was so lucky that Chris Rock told THAT exact joke, and THAT exact joke made Will Smith mad enough to act out so totally uncharacteristically and coincidentally promoted Pfizer\u2019s new $7B medication that treats a painfully obvious side-effect of its Covid drug. I mean, what are the odds!<\/p>\n
— Jeff Childers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}